Example sentences of "i tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two days after I tell them about Damien Gould , he 's dead . |
| 2 | Wait until I tell them at home ! |
| 3 | I tell them of a babysitting job I had when I was 12 . |
| 4 | on on discussions on the basis of what I tell them on the phone . |
| 5 | When I eventually find him , I tell him of my difficulty , and he sympathises . |
| 6 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 7 | I tell him about the whisky story and the chill-filtering and the colouring but he already seems to know it all . |
| 8 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 9 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 10 | I tell him about you . |
| 11 | ‘ If I tell him about Tim at least he 'll have a sensible line of enquiry . ’ |
| 12 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 13 | I tell him about the cramps , feeling like a child who has fallen and cut herself , demanding sympathy . |
| 14 | So I tell him about the search for her , and he sits and listens . |
| 15 | He is a talented lad who shows great respect for his elders and will play in any position I tell him to . |
| 16 | I tell her of my travels , although none of them is to a place you could easily find on a map , and of the people I have met . |
| 17 | I tell her of my trip to Nairobi and the contacts with the laibon , but I am unable to explain to her how my personal relationship with the subject matter is developing . |
| 18 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 19 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 20 | The parent attitude would be ‘ do it thus because I tell you to ’ , again crossing the stimulus/response lines . |
| 21 | As for me , I tell you as a friend , I feel impotent when confronted with such nature , for my Northern brains were oppressed by a nightmare in those peaceful spots as I felt one ought to do better things with the foliage . |
| 22 | When I tell you about your Osphronemus gourami you may wish you had done so . |
| 23 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 24 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 25 | ‘ Sydel , ’ he said , ‘ there is something , but if I tell you about it , it might not happen . ’ |
| 26 | Aye , the , the , as I tell you about the . |
| 27 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 28 | Before I tell you about it , do you agree to keep it a secret ? ’ |
| 29 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 30 | That will become quite significant when I tell you about call forwarding . |